April 2005 MR article

[darkstar974]

In the news and technology part of MR there is a article called a technological revolution is this for real or is it a gag!!!

Dark

[Anonymous]

In the APRIL issue? Could it be a gag? Gee, I wonder!

Bob Boudreau

[red p]

It could be a gag.They have done that before [(-D]

[hminky]

Not as good as modeling abandoned right-o-ways as your model railroad a few years back
Just a thought
Harold

[rrinker]

haha NoTrak modular standards! That was the best.

Modelling subways and using hamsters to clean the tubes out was pretty good too.


The classic is a REAL oldy, prototypical track magnets for uncoupling!

[chutton01]

This one wasn't really their best attempt, Probably because the layout was upside down - it'd been cooler if they had it suspended (right side up) in the e-field at chest height, and it could be 'attracted' up to the ceiling for storage.
I kinda liked the idea of the prototypical boxcar review of a few years back, although the executation wasn't up to snuff. The London Underground modeling was pretty good, and had that suitable unstated humor. I'm trying to remember if the 'shrinking human' to scale (via 'compressing' water mass) was one of their April articles...
One decades ago that might have wooshed over newbies heads was the prototypical plans for a SD30...

[IRONROOSTER]

One I enjoyed from years ago was the article on how to pressurize your basement so you could eliminate those steel support posts which are always in the way.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

The April Fool is back early!

[howmus]

Somebody's been playing with Photoshop again....... [:O]

[rrinker]

Oh yeah, how could I forget the great pressurized basement one? Airlocks and stuff. Pressurize the basement to eliminate support columns. That one goes WAY back, but then it was resurrected in one of the Q&A columns when someone asked about it (or maybe the person asking was a plant, who knows?).

--Randy

[Javern]

ahhh still funny, wonder if that was Andy's sock ?

[davekelly]

I loved the pressurized basement one. Who remembers the one where the one guy was going to build a totally to scale layout of the Wisconsin Central. Man, that one has me going big time!

[darkstar974]

shucks i forgot about april fools good lord i bought it hook line and sinker

Dark

[Cox 47]

Seems as I rember one about a tiny super detailed scale was't John Allen in on that one? Cox 47

[davekelly]

Was that the one where a train was set up next to what looked like a real size pencil and ruler?

[Anonymous]

I remember the one about the full-size railroads using Kadee couplers, and how transporting the uncoupler magnets caused a problem because they were attracted to the underside of overpasses! :)

[Anonymous]

Auggggh, I bought it too! I was like, "who would want a layout like this?"

[Anonymous]

Ouch! I believed it too. I was dreaming of a layout covering the whole ceiling of my house.

[Eriediamond]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Skipeo

Ouch! I believed it too. I was dreaming of a layout covering the whole ceiling of my house.

This was actually the intentions of Lionel back in the 50's when they came out with magnetraction. Ken

[Anonymous]

I've built two N layouts suspended from the ceiling on garage door cables, pulleys, etc They were easy to wire, convenient to work on and run at whatever height I wanted. They were great for showing children without having to seat them on high chairs or pick them up. I really liked to run them at my own eye level. Strangely enough, this is the only suspended layout I've ever seen in MR. Did I miss something? I tried a Lionel locomotive with Magne-traction on an upside-down layout back in the 1950's. It didn't work.